all in a day's work

Wake up sleepy head

2009-06-30T07:44:00.000+01:00

I think the suns a little brighter today.

It's not all bad this life we live..

Sometimes things go wrong with our computers but it's because of something we did we just didn't realise we did it.

Fragments..

Shards

I'm in the past.

2009-06-16T15:47:00.001+01:00

Or at least I feel like I am.

dammit

2009-06-13T00:11:00.001+01:00

Of course..

It's obvious.

I forgot Grace by Jeff Buckley.

But! Only if it's the Live from Chicago DVD with the talky/guitary bit beforehand.

Everyone else's suggestions are also good. For the most part.

We're talking intros if you missed that somehow..

o&o

crooked soul trying to stay up straight..

2009-06-01T17:49:00.001+01:00

Weather good. But you didn't need me to tell you that now did ya?

No no.

I've got a nice little list for you that I spent all of ten seconds doing (so I might change my mind).

Anyway. Top ten intros, in no particular order:

Everything Zen - Bush

Just - Radiohead

The River - Nitin Sawhney

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (I know I know, but I still have memories of the first time I heard it when I hear it now)

Electioneering - Radiohead

Lose Control - Ash

Execution - Grammatrain

Two Step - Dave Matthews Band (preferably live)

2nd Amendment - Easyworld

Most songs by Muse but if I had to pick one I'd pick Plug In Baby/Hyper Music/Stockholm Syndrome/Citizen Erased I just can't do it sorry..

That's all..

out

can I just say..

2009-05-28T07:52:00.001+01:00

So then..

That was just about the birthday to top the rest. Ok so the festivities weren't as prolonged as other year's have been but what they lacked in breadth they made up for in depth. That may or may not make sense.

Tonite is the NAG open mic night. Good times for all to have. Woop woop.

overandout

just don't get caught

2009-05-20T07:00:00.000+01:00

This is getting problematic now. Two posts, two subjects which have probably already clogged the tubes as much as we could want them to. So many opinions, so much waffle. And here's me imagining I have something to bring to the table.

To be fair though, it's not as if the internet is short of space just yet.

I was thinking about the whole MP expense kerfuffle. Naturally. I mean, who isn't? Toby Young pointed out the press hypocrisy, which interested me. Obviously it's slightly different for the press because it's not taxpayers money being abused. They're businesses and if they see fit to run like that then I guess they can.

What worries me is that whilst parliament can be held up for scrutiny, there's not really the same mechanisms for holding the press up for scrutiny. If they out and out lie then there are laws and they can be taken to task. But what about what about when they present the actual truth in unhelpful ways, or present the truth when the truth isn't going to help the situation, or present bad opinions, or just generally drive things into the ground and tear down tear down tear down.

This is treading into freedom of speech territory. Which I'm all for. However, just because you're free to say something, doesn't mean you should say it. For instance I'm free to say you're ugly. But I don't think it would help either of us for me to say it.

The problem and major sticking point in my mind is that it's all subjective anyway. One man's truth is another man's lie. If you can't even trust your own memory why should you trust anyone elses.

I don't think I've got a solution.

On that note, birth-long-weekend kicks off tomorrow. Got pubbage, QI, Pontins, Nandos, BBQ, pubbage and publunchage comin' right up. What times to be living in.

K I'm done.

They're all at it..

2009-05-09T12:28:00.003+01:00

Undeveloped thoughts for a Saturday morning..

- I don't buy into the idea that we all have one hidden talent that we are outstanding at. Obviously there's the work that goes into making you outstanding but also there's too wide a spectrum in humanity for this to be the case. And in any case going around believing that there's one thing you could be outstanding at probably won't ultimately help you to be everything you could be. But then neither is accepting mediocrity I guess.. Once again I've excelled myself and saying something and nothing.

- I will be the next in a long line of people choosing to comment and I probably shouldn't, but as a society we're still being shallow and cynical in our approach to Susan Boyle. Ok, yeah, people judged the book by the cover (which these programs encourage us to do anyway by showing people who are both "ugly" and "talentless" for our titillation) and shouldn't have been as surprised as they were that she could belt it, but we're really just swapping one external for another anyway. By saying (effectively) that it's ok 'cos she can sing we're still not accepting her as she is.

I.. think?

Anyways. I'll be off. Mebbe I'll develop these thoughts. Probably not.

ovaryout.

Don't cross the line

2009-04-26T15:54:00.001+01:00

The lines we cross.

not what you think

2009-04-24T22:39:00.002+01:00

They say that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

I sincerely hope this is the case.

If we take this webness at face value and look at its themes and recurring points of interest and such..... well what do we got?

- blogging about blogging (or not)
- foop-ball
- alcohol
- Open Mic
- pritty pitchars
- broken promises and shattered dreams

Not a great list of partses.

Ultimately though I'd like to think I'm somewhere around the middle of the pile when it comes to blogging.

Having now thoroughly (some would say too much I suspect) taken care of the first, let's see what we can do with the rest..

Had a cracking game tonite. Whilst not managing to score I set up at least one, and kept a clean sheet for my spell in goal. Open Mic was also "the real deal"™. Lots of looping, from all quarters. For which I am grateful. And yes I had a few drinks.

As for the pictures... Well, I'll combine those with the last point by not providing any. This time.

It would be nice to get back into some moblogging though. Maybe tomorrow.

There's always tomorrow.

spill

2009-04-20T21:46:00.002+01:00

Events of note from the past two weeks

- visiting with El's grandparents
- 3dBs gig (extra credit)
- First barbecue of the summer
- Second barbecue of the summer
- Vomit

Birthday is soon. I'm in two minds of what kind of events to stage this year. Things are possibly shaping up.

That is once again all I got. I'm breaking back into this slowly mmkay.

over
out

All in the footnotes

2009-04-19T19:13:00.002+01:00

I've been thinking about this a lot recently*.

And after all this deliberation** I've come to the carefully considered conclusion*** that the collective term for people who use twitter™ should not be twitterites, twitterers, tweeters or such, but in fact should be twats.

that's all I got today.

out..

* just occured to me
** as above
*** thought it would be funny

More fun with screen grabs

2009-04-04T13:05:00.003+01:00

My propensity for proof-reading has propagated another profitable presence of the prevalence of preposterousness in this predominantly pretentious province.

Awful alliteration aside (ahurr durr) I'm pretty glad that people don't write malware for this reason. But I wish they wouldn't write it at all.

I'm assuming the beeb have since corrected this amusing mistake.

We went to see the glorious Mr. Ford just this week. And what would you know, I took a photo. But I forgot to post it for your perusal and pleasure.

I really should be doing something else right now. So I away. To the break of day. Odelay.

out.

Using The "Google"

2009-03-26T15:09:00.003Z

Don't know why the quote marks make me chuckle. They just do. I think I'm imagining someone saying it.

On the subject of imagining, I'm not imagining that this makes up for months of shortage of bloggage. So you can rest your mind in peace.

out

God's own beer cooler

2009-02-03T19:06:00.002Z

We were blessed with not one but two snow days this week. A snow day being a day off work due to snow. I'm sure Boris would have a thing or two to say about that, but I enjoyed it. And what better way to enjoy a snow day than to kick back with a snow chilled one. Because as we all know, a one that is not cold is hardly a one at all.

I have to say that my snowball aim was cracking on Monday. I scored several headshots and many obscured shots also. Bangin'.

Back to the onslaught tomorrow, but 3 day week is not too shabby for Toby.

overandoutdoorsthrowin'snow

SNOW WATCH EMERGENCY UPDATE:

2009-02-01T19:33:00.001Z

OH HELL YES!

couldn't resist it, sorry

What I did on my holidays

2009-01-18T19:22:00.000Z

Happy 2009 to all of you in Lala land and in the real world. Here's hopin' to more bloggin' this year.

Oh and good luck Obama. God knows you'll need it.

overandout

don't just stand there..

2008-12-04T16:24:00.002Z

Malcolm Gladwell says that to truly become a genius in something, you must dedicate 10,000 hours to its cause.

It was at the point of reading this article that I realised just how buggered I am.

I mean we knew that was never going to happen with blogging. But I hoped I might have a shot at songwriting.

Hope is a funny thing. I haven't written a full song in over year and I still had this vain fancy. Ever the optimist I suppose.

Well anyways. I gotta buzz. Drinks followed by Open Mic. Which will hopefully be a cracker. Followed by songwriting practice I suppose (ha).

overandout..

it's not what you do..

2008-11-28T18:33:00.002Z

Well well.

We meet again.

It's not that I've been slack or anything. It's just that all I've been doing for the last 3 months is sitting quietly in a darkened room, rocking back and forth in a zen like trance. That doesn't leave much to write about. Well. Nothing you'd want to read.

SO.

NippergotolderfireworksgigsmightybooshinbrightonjohnmartynincambridgegotpromoteddrinksesmulledwinechickeninsaltwinetastingohprobablysomeotherstuffIforgetrightnow.

How've you been?

Humbug

2008-11-07T13:11:00.002Z

the little things

2008-10-31T23:17:00.002Z

There have been certain traditions here at tobiwan.co.uk. Certain traditions, holy days and recurrences.

I missed one already this year. That was that I've been going (ish - I know) for 4 years now.. Gosh.

You'd be forgiven for thinking I'd missed another, but in fact it got postponed because of the nipperival.

Correctness! Tomorrow is Lord of the Rings day. All is good.

Nipper is doing well thanks.

Keep it easy yo peeps

some days

2008-10-02T11:56:00.000+01:00

All you need is to get lost in music.

It gets better

2008-09-26T23:31:00.003+01:00

Him again too

Him again

2008-09-26T23:31:00.001+01:00

How to disappear completely

2008-09-24T23:18:00.002+01:00

Let me tell you a story.

Last nite I woke up (of my own volition I might add) more times than my (nearly) 2 week old daughter.

I don't know what this means.

Stay tuned campers.

Suppose I'd Better

2008-09-11T11:37:00.001+01:00

I have been up for nearly 32 hours now.

I can see round corners, through walls, and bend time like you wouldn't believe.

Right now I am everywhich.

Who's the daddy?

You'd better believ it fat boy